Jeremy Reymer, CEO and founder of DriverReach, is joined on this episode of Taking The Hire Road by an industry friend, Hayden Cardiff, chief innovation officer and founder of Idelic, who happens to be one of DriverReach’s strongest integrated partners.
During his time working in trucking consulting, Cardiff identified a critical pain problem among fleets of all sizes: Companies have access to an abundance of data but do not have a good solution to use that information to be proactive and...
As its name suggests, the Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP) is used by motor carriers ahead of a hiring decision to evaluate a prospective driver’s safety history.
As such, drivers should treat their PSP records like a resume, said Mark Barlar, director of DOT regulatory compliance at Reliance Partners, a trucking insurance and safety consulting agency.
While PSP records are sometimes inaccurately referred to as scores, they are not numerical values. Instead, the reports are compilations of...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/psp-records-a-drivers-resume
When was the last time your company hired a new driver only to see them quit a few months later?
It happens a lot. The reality is, when drivers quit, they tend to leave within the first six months of employment.
Whether the driver was the wrong fit, or they were unhappy with the day-to-day realities of the position, it didn’t work out, and now the company is back to square one.
No matter how many truck drivers a carrier hires, the same problem will keep happening if the business doesn’t change its...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/4-driver-recruitment-practices-for-improving-retention
The driver shortage continues to plague the trucking industry, but is an inefficient and outdated hiring process partially to blame?
With the industry still short 78,000, according to an estimate by the American Trucking Associations, the quicker companies can fill those seats, the better. But, according to Joel Sitak, CEO of Foley, a Connecticut-based specialty screening and compliance software provider, the hiring process for drivers is usually two weeks.
At most companies — for applicants and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/is-an-inefficient-hiring-process-pushing-away-drivers
Truck driving is one of the largest professions in the U.S., with 3.5 million people strong, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But despite this, most trucking companies are constantly searching for experienced and reliable candidates.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates there are approximately 259,000 job openings for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers each year, and everybody in the transportation industry, especially hiring managers, knows filling those positions isn’t easy.
Compet...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/navigating-the-modern-driver-hiring-process
In February 2017, Kathryn Armijo was struck and killed following a head-on collision involving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10 just outside Las Cruces, New Mexico.
A two-week jury trial in 2019 ended with a $40.5 million award against the mega-carrier, which trained the driver through its affiliated driver-training school. The driver had been on the job for just eight days when, the court documents detail, he crossed four lanes of traffic and a concrete median before striking Armijo’s car.
The...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nuclear-verdicts-measuring-exposure-and-managing-risk
A first-half 2022 economic outlook issued by truckload carrier U.S. Xpress Wednesday calls for strength in freight demand to last through at least the first half of the year. The company highlighted some caveats, most notably the impact of inflation on consumer spending.
Inventory replenishment is likely to carry freight demand through the beginning of the year, the report said. After that, it’s really up to how much of a bite inflation takes out of the consumer’s wallet.
“If the economy can...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-xpress-sees-freight-moving-at-fever-pitch-through-at-least-h122
Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. announced Tuesday the opening of two driver academies. The new schools are located in the transportation hubs of metro Atlanta and Cincinnati and are part of the carrier’s efforts to onboard new drivers to offset attrition during the year.
“We’re pleased to offer additional driver training locations,” Yellow CEO Darren Hawkins stated in a press release. “Our goal is to train 1,000 new drivers through our academies this year.”
The facilities complement 14...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/yellow-adds-driver-schools-eyes-training-1000-drivers-in-2022
The days of utilizing print media to help job prospects and employers find each other are nearly over. Driver recruiting has turned the page.
Natasha Hammack, VP of corporate branding and communications at Wright Media LLC, has been in the industry since newspaper want ads reigned supreme. As one of the trucking industry’s first digital recruiting salespeople, she joined host Jeremy Reymer, founder and CEO of DriverReach, on the latest episode of Taking The Hire Road to discuss how important it...
Ask any motor carrier what’s giving them headaches and they’ll likely say “hiring drivers”. It’s no surprise, considering we’re in what many are calling an ongoing driver shortage.
External factors have largely taken the blame for such woes. They’ve been an albatross around the neck of driver recruiters nationwide – especially during the pandemic. It started when COVID-19 slowed the once bountiful driver school pipeline to a trickle, virtually eliminating new talent. Things only worsened with...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/driverreach-boosts-speed-to-hire-in-driver-recruiting